Programme guidance on smoking cessation recommends the following stop smoking interventions as being cost-effective: brief interventions individual behavioural counselling group behaviour therapy pharmacotherapies – NRT, Zyban (bupropion) and Champix (varenicline) self-help materials telephone counselling and helplines Services will vary in…
Daily Archives: March 30, 2009
NHS SmokiNg HelpliNe
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The national NHS Smoking Helpline (0800 169 0 169) and the Smokefree website (www.nhs.uk/smokefree) currently provide referrals to NHS Stop Smoking Services, mostly from smokers responding to national campaign activity. Work is under way to improve the links between national…
Stop SmokiNg ServiceS
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Stop smoking service leads and commissioners need to ensure that SLAs or Local Enhanced Service contracts with service providers include clear criteria for delivery and reporting requirements. All staff involved in this work should be trained, either by the service…
Calculating self-reported success rates
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Calculating CO-verified, self-reported success rates The CO-verified four-week success rate achieved by a service or individual service provider will be the number of successful CO-verified quitters at four weeks (as previously defined) divided by the number of smokers treated (as…
Stop smoking definitions and procedures
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It is essential that all stop smoking services adopt strict criteria when deciding on who to include in their monitoring return and the four-week quit status of a service user, and that these criteria are applied consistently. This was an…
Monitoring NHS stop smoking services
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NHS stop smoking services are monitored monthly, by means of the brief, monthly reporting system introduced in 2007 and by means of a more detailed, quarterly data collection. From April 2008 quarterly data collection will be submitted directly to the…